Top Media Outlets
Europe & United Kingdom (highlights)
- FINANCIAL TIMES: Datawatch: Worn-out world
- LE MONDE: Le « jour du dépassement » a lieu cette année trois semaines plus tôt qu’en 2020
- LES ECHOS: Opinion | Tous sur le pont pour affronter la tourmente du climat
- INDEPENDENT: Earth Overshoot Day 2021: Why the date has been moved back to 29 July as emissions ramp up amid Covid recovery
- RTL: Erdüberlastungstag 2021 wieder so früh wie vor der Pandemie – Ressourcen schon aufgebraucht
- SPIEGEL: Tausende Wissenschaftler warnen vor weltweitem Klimanotstand
- IL SOLE 24 ORA: L’uomo torna a bruciare le risorse del pianeta: dal 29 luglio viviamo a credito
- FRANCETV INFO: “Jour du dépassement” : la transition écologique doit se faire “à une cadence accélérée”, insiste le co-président du groupe des Verts au Parlement européen
- EURONEWS: Earth Overshoot day is here, and it’s back to its usual date after brief COVID respite
- FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: „Guten Morgen! 1. Die Ressourcen für 2021 sind schon verbraucht“
- FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: „Die Zukunft wird, ob wir wollen oder nicht, frei von fossiler Energie sein“
- FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: „Wir verbrauchen zu viel – das ist wirklich nicht schwer zu begreifen“
Americas (highlights)
- NEWSWEEK: Today is Earth Overshoot Day: What Does That Mean?
- FAST COMPANY: It’s not even August and we’ve already used up the Earth’s resources for the year
- ABC NEWS: Earth Overshoot Day marks date planet has used up resources for the year
- EL TIEMPO: Qué es el Día de Sobrecapacidad de la Tierra y por qué deberías conocerlo
- O GLOBO: Entrando no vermelho: planeta está prestes a esgotar os recursos naturais que tinha para 2021
- TORONTO STAR: Humans used up the earth’s available renewable resources for the year by July 29
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Today is #WorldOvershootDay - the day when we've used up the world's resources for 2021.
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) July 29, 2021
On national levels this date varies a lot. In my country Sweden it occurs on April 6th. We're not just stealing the future - we're also stealing the present from other parts of the world. pic.twitter.com/kxFyLotRVs
Environnement : l'humanité vit toujours plus « à crédit » sur la planète ⤵️https://t.co/3Ybsl0PtHQ pic.twitter.com/tYmS66Fsk6
— Les Echos (@Iesechos) July 29, 2021
🌍 Jeudi, l'humanité aura consommé l'ensemble des ressources planétaires: le "jour du dépassement" est revenu au niveau de 2019, après une brève accalmie en 2020 liée à la crise sanitaire, avertit l'ONG américaine Global Footprint Network ⤵️ #AFP @AFPGraphics pic.twitter.com/NYe2Xbcshi
— Agence France-Presse (@afpfr) July 27, 2021
We’ll have already used up all the resources Earth can naturally reproduce for the year by July 29, researchers say (with @MrAlexAlba) pic.twitter.com/FyUbLS6jGG
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 27, 2021
Today is #EarthOvershootDay 🗓️
— COP26 (@COP26) July 29, 2021
It marks the date when we have taken more from nature than the earth can regenerate in a year, according to @EndOvershoot data.
Learn more about how the UK #COP26 Presidency is driving ambitious climate action 👇#MoveTheDate pic.twitter.com/U4NkLJb6e9
La Journée du dépassement, c'est quoi exactement? 🤔 Le scientifique suisse @MaWackernagel de @EndOvershoot vous l'explique en vidéo. Plus d'infos et d'idées d'actions pour cocréer notre futur ici: https://t.co/Dq7tJMV305 #EarthOvershootDay pic.twitter.com/QHLvkvvkDI
— WWF Suisse (@WWF_Suisse) July 29, 2021
Today is #EarthOvershootDay 2021 - the day humans have surpassed what global resources can sustain in a single year.
— UN Climate Change (@UNFCCC) July 29, 2021
The date is almost as early as 2019, after being pushed back in 2020 by COVID-19.
We need solutions to #MoveTheDate - and they exist: https://t.co/ZwrnZs6Mo7 pic.twitter.com/blUomWBmkM
Earth #OvershootDay is just another reminder that we must change how we use our resources. The technologies to do this exist in every region and every industry – we just need to deploy them, quickly and widely. https://t.co/XdcrjhZNO7
— Jean-Pascal Tricoire (@jptricoire) July 29, 2021
Today is 🌍Over Shoot day, when humankind uses more than our planet has to offer. Two symbols of using Earth's resources that can be seen from space: large open-pit coal mining and the red mud of aluminium smelting. https://t.co/6QW34aD1AB #MoveTheDate #MissionAlpha pic.twitter.com/aeX2tz3NrD
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) July 29, 2021
There are +7.5 billion people on Earth & we use more than 1.5x the resources we have.
— UN Development (@UNDP) July 29, 2021
Today is #EarthOvershootDay. In less than 8 months, we've already used up more resources than can be renewed in 2021. We need to act now to #MoveTheDate for people & 🌎. https://t.co/41giCKh9WL pic.twitter.com/UN0ZzaltZh
It's #EarthOvershootDay
— EU Environment (@EU_ENV) July 29, 2021
Today, we have already used up all natural resources our 🌏 can renew in 2021
We can and must #MoveTheDate
🧑🤝🧑 For people
🌱 #ForNature
🌍 For #OurPlanet, our only home
The 🇪🇺 #EUGreenDeal is our commitment to making it happen: https://t.co/2ooAu0XhdK pic.twitter.com/FqehbIVHeT